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A ram raid at a Lincolnshire Co-op store where the cash machine was taken has happened a year to the day when thieves ripped another ATM from a phone box in a Lincolnshire village.

At around 3am this morning, Sunday May 21, raiders ploughed a JCB into the corner of the Branston store on Station Road, causing extensive damage.

Ram raids with thieves wanting to take cash machines have taken place across the county in recent years and Lincolnshire Live can reveal the places that have been targeted.

Thieves have either attempted to or have carried out ram raids in Lincoln, Donington, Woodhall Spa, Caistor, Sutton Bridge, Retford, Tealby, Horncastle and Hainton.

Take a look at our round-up of the incidents that have taken place across the county over the years...

Ram raid in Gainsborough

On this day, May 21 last year, thieves ripped a cash machine from inside a phone box in a Lincolnshire village.

Parts of the machine were left strewn across the street following the incident on Broadway, Woodhall Spa.

A fork lift vehicle has been used in a ram raid on a shop.

A cash machine was removed at about 3am on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 from Station Road in Epworth.

In January 2015, a teleporter was used in a ram raid on a Gainsborough shop in which a cash machine was stolen.

Police say the incident happened at the Spar shop on Corringham Road at around 3am today.

In February 2016, a police officer was almost ran over after the botched ram-raid on Friday, February 12.

JCB was aimed at the Lincolnshire Co-op

JCB was aimed at the Lincolnshire Co-op

The JCB was aimed at the Lincolnshire Co-op Jerusalem Road food store at 2.30am in an attempt to steal from the shop.

In March 2016, a stolen pick-up truck was used to ram raid three shop fronts in three separate incidents in Lincolnshire, police believe.

The white Ford Ranger truck, which was stolen from Little Cawthorpe near Louth earlier in the month, is believed to have been used during attempted raids at Tealby, Horncastle and Hainton.

In April 2016, thieves ripped out a cash machine from a bank in Caistor by using a forklift truck and a transit van that had part of the roof cut away.

A group of four masked offenders were seen to be dragging the ATM from the wall of National Westminster Bank in the market place at Caistor before using a forklift to load it into a white transit van.

Teleporter digger

In May 2016, raiders used a teleporter digger to rip out the ATM from the Co-op store in Sutton Bridge at about 2.26am on Tuesday, May 24, which was found with its money still inside 30 miles away.

The digger was abandoned at the scene and the store has been left with a gaping hole in the wall.

In November 2016, officers were called to the Co-op in Donington, near Boston, after a digger was used to try and remove the cash machine.

This happened at about 3.20am on Thursday, September 29.

Co-op in Donington was hit

While ramming the wall, the digger destroyed the front of the shop with the roof and walls collapsing around it.

Thieves fled the scene empty handed but they were caught on CCTV attempting the ram raid.

In January this year, criminals wrenched metal security gates from their hinges at a Retford industrial estate before targeting three units and escaping with cash, thousands of pounds worth of tools and a car.

The crooks even left the taps running at one firm, flooding the business unit.

According to a tenant of a unit in the Canalside Workshops Industrial Estate on Leverton Road, a rope or chain was tied to the main gates and a truck used to rip them open.

Ram raiders have been targeting Lincolnshire

And others believe that a vehicle rammed through the gates, shearing them from their hinges.

Thieves used a white van to ram-raided a designer store in Lincolnshire.

Police say a white van was reversed into the door of the premises causing damage to the shop before thieves made off with a quantity of clothes.

Thieves targeted Brown's Department Store in Gainsborough at about 5.30am on Saturday, April 8.